Iraq Survey Report Demolishes Bush And Blair's Case For War Finally the long awaited report is out. Iraq survey group appointed by President Bush to justify his case for going to war in Iraq has finally released their report. The report proves precisely the opposite: Saddam Hussein had no chemical weapons, no biological weapons, no nuclear weapons. The international regime of weapons containment maligned by Bush and Blair had functioned exactly as it was supposed to. Saddam Hussein was progressively disarmed. This is the work of 1200 inspectors who scoured the country under the auspices of the US directed Iraq survey group. The world now knows that more than 1000 Americans and more than 100 British and soldiers of other nationalities along with thousands of Iraqi men, women and children died in vain in an unlawful war. The ISG report tells us in no uncertain terms that the invasion of Iraq was grounded in little more substantial than figments of a fevered, post-11 September, imagination. The international “consensus” that Saddam Hussein constituted a global threat was incorrect. So much for UN Resolution 1441 that gave the US and Britain their spurious excuse for war. There was a failure of intelligence, on either side of the Atlantic, of historic proportions, the reasons for which need to be identified as a matter of urgency. More gravely, though, there was a historic failure of judgement on the part of a small group of national leaders. Trust us, they told us. They were credulous, they failed to consult broadly enough, they failed to exercise due responsibility -and they were wrong.
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